Live webinar: Wanna Come out and Play? The creative use of games, stories, puppets, and art with children and teens

Live webinar: Wanna Come out and Play? The creative use of games, stories, puppets, and art with children and teens

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Wanna Come out and Play? The creative use of games, stories, puppets, and art with children and teens

Live webinar October 26, 2020
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S

The creative use of games, puppets, stories, and art engages children and teens in therapy and helps them to resolve their psychological difficulties.  Through this hands-on training, participants will learn how to utilize a variety of therapeutic techniques to make sessions meaningful and effective.  The activities presented can be used with a wide range of presenting problems and difficulties.  Videos and live demonstrations will be used to illustrate techniques.


Learning objectives:

  • identify the therapeutic value of game play, and the criteria for game selection
  • utilize basic skills in bringing a puppet to life
  • describe the steps to writing therapeutic stories and how to integrate metaphors
  • articulate guidelines to processing client artwork
  • implement a variety of play and expressive arts techniques
  • describe key processing skills to deepen therapeutic work

Registration fees: $250. Student and group rates may be available.

For more information and full registration details please visit our event website page at: https://www.cvent.com/d/h7qlxw